Michelle, eh, first name and all that.
Didn't she take a day off a while back with Mary-Lou to illegally attend some dead IRA thug's funeral?
What was it you were saying about knuckle-daggers again?
Would you prefer that I burst into song?
Well, hello, Mary Lou, goodbye, Part-
-Tition, Ireland, may all our dreams come true!
From you, Mary Lou, should never Part-
-Tition, great! DUP truly screwed!
Well, this does happen to be the name of the lady in question, so why not? And it's merely a recognition of reality - unless the Unionists of whatever stripe can get their respective acts together, the Shinners stand a fighting chance of being the biggest party at the next election, and will name the First Monster.
This potentially brings its own problems, especially if Sinn Féin forms the next Irish Government. In spite of the frequent furious denials, it seems that they take their orders from the IRA Army Council in Belfast. This is why the ladies attended that funeral - they essentially had no choice. This is why Dublin is desperate to deny Sinn Féin a share of government, even if it meant sleeping with the enemy (Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael essentially represent the two sides of the post-Partition civil war that actually killed far more Irishmen than did the British).
The big problem with Sinn Féin/IRA is that they are not knuckle-draggers to the same extent as are the Loyalists - they have a clear goal in mind, a solid historical justification for it and are pursuing it. And they have been very successful. Gerry Adams's great insight was that the romantic attachment to the gun and the bomb was never going to work, and his project (outlined in columns in
An Phoblacht while interned) was "the bullet and the ballot". Psychological evaluations of IRA active service members found remarkably few psychopaths, whereas the Loyalist side (e.g. the Shankill Butchers) was full of them.
So, the upshot is that the Republican side are not the religious buffoons of the Loyalist side, which makes them far more dangerous. The only way that the Loyalists can counter them is by not behaving like
right eejits and making a solid case for continued union and its benefits, something that has nothing to do with Derry's walls, the Boyne, Lord Carson, the Covenant, the Somme and all those other Protestant sacred symbols.